[quote]bigmac73nh wrote:
[quote]ebomb5522 wrote:
Have you applied already, or are you thinking toward the future? [/quote]
I actually sent in most of my apps late last week. Got a couple more going out in the near future, just waiting to get a final letter of rec in for those.[/quote]
Nice man! Good luck!
Where else did you apply?
[quote]ebomb5522 wrote:
Nice man! Good luck!
Where else did you apply? [/quote]
Thanks! Got three others out so far- to BU, Northeastern, and Villanova. I also plan to send out an app to St. John’s this week, and one more to Yeshiva once I get that letter of rec in.
[quote]bigmac73nh wrote:
[quote]ebomb5522 wrote:
Nice man! Good luck!
Where else did you apply? [/quote]
Thanks! Got three others out so far- to BU, Northeastern, and Villanova. I also plan to send out an app to St. John’s this week, and one more to Yeshiva once I get that letter of rec in. [/quote]
If you go to either of the first two, we will be neighbors!
Evan I hope your RFL goes really bad so that my self-esteem isn’t further crushed. Jk. You’ll kill it.
[quote]bigmac73nh wrote:
[quote]ebomb5522 wrote:
Nice man! Good luck!
Where else did you apply? [/quote]
Thanks! Got three others out so far- to BU, Northeastern, and Villanova. I also plan to send out an app to St. John’s this week, and one more to Yeshiva once I get that letter of rec in. [/quote]
Nice nice, your list is very similar to mine.
[quote]bugeishaAD wrote:
[quote]bigmac73nh wrote:
[quote]ebomb5522 wrote:
Nice man! Good luck!
Where else did you apply? [/quote]
Thanks! Got three others out so far- to BU, Northeastern, and Villanova. I also plan to send out an app to St. John’s this week, and one more to Yeshiva once I get that letter of rec in. [/quote]
If you go to either of the first two, we will be neighbors!
Evan I hope your RFL goes really bad so that my self-esteem isn’t further crushed. Jk. You’ll kill it.[/quote]
<3
RFL is fantastic. You just need the will power to get through it and you obviously have it. I had some great results with it. Once i get to a point again during this gaining phase i will just do another stint of RFL. Last one 8 days. Dropped 10lbs and an inch off my waist. That was 2 months ago almost now and I the waist has barely increased since then yet weight is almost back to the starting weight. It works. You will dominate it.
[quote]ryanbCXG wrote:
RFL is fantastic. You just need the will power to get through it and you obviously have it. I had some great results with it. Once i get to a point again during this gaining phase i will just do another stint of RFL. Last one 8 days. Dropped 10lbs and an inch off my waist. That was 2 months ago almost now and I the waist has barely increased since then yet weight is almost back to the starting weight. It works. You will dominate it.[/quote]
Thanks man…I’m pretty excited.
It’s pretty much perfect timing too as I have a lot of work right now and am pretty busy this entire week and next. So far, hunger isn’t bad at all. I don’t anticipate this being too bad, especially given the visual changes that will keep me motivated.
2.21.12
Cardio
20 minutes elliptical
20 minutes incline treadmill
total cals burned: 575
That’s all I got for you guys today. Had some Humapro prior to and during this cardio session and then had 12 ounnces chicken breast following it.
I am sipping on 40 grams BCAA in a gallon of water throughout the day and will be trying to ingest 2 gallons of water/day as well.
I didn’t weigh myself today and will update with weight on Friday when I’m guessing there will be a significant drop from my 224 starting point.
2.22.12
Shoulders/Triceps/Chest
Defrancos Upper Body Warmup
Seated Smith Press
225 x 17, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2
Seated Dumbbell Lateral (good form)
45 x 9, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1
Machine Chest Press/Band BTB Pull-Apart
75 x 12/10
115 x 10/10
125 x 10/10
150 x 10, 100 x 10, 75 x 10, 100 x neutral grip/10
Machine Delt Raise (3 second eccentrics)
110 x 12, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1
Overhead Rope Extension
10, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
DC Standing Calf Raise
1 x 10
Solid session.
I did a bit more pressing today and there was only a little pain in my chest. I stopped the smith press not at muscular failure, but when I could feel that it might get dangerous if I went further…other than that, I was pretty happy with the reps despite the circumstances.
The chest press actually felt pretty good. Only on the 150 lb set (which I do all with 3 second eccentrics/stretch) did I feel a bit of pain, but I was able to focus on flexing my chest and push through. The pain wasn’t bad, meaning I don’t believe that I hurt it more ramping it up a bit today…I actually felt much better after the day was over and my chest feels better than ever. I also did some light incline dumbbell pressing going up to the 80s for nice stretched reps.
RFL is going very well right now…I can really tell when I ingest carbs as I get very watery from just the 30 grams I take in intra-workout…even more so than I did when I was doing my pre-contest diet and on very low carbs. I feel good and the hunger isn’t too bad yet, but Im anticipate it getting pretty tough over the weekend as I will have a lot of free time to sit around and think about being hungry and not being able to eat lol. After tomorrow, it will be 4 days down and 7 to go, so it’s time to get tough.
I might film a short posing video tonight and post just to give an indication of where I am physique wise.
I weighed myself on the school scale that I used to track myself by post-workout and I weighed 228 lol.
Posing video today…was pretty happy with how I looked.
Kinda screwed up my rear dbl biceps, but that’s okay.
Cheese and rice your back is big. Looking good. Will you do another pose down after RFL? Keep on trucking man. The visual changes are a great motivator
[quote]ryanbCXG wrote:
Cheese and rice your back is big. Looking good. Will you do another pose down after RFL? Keep on trucking man. The visual changes are a great motivator[/quote]
Haha, thanks bro.
I will definitely be doing another posing video a week from now or so when RFL is pretty much done.
Thx, I needed to feel small for a bit.
… I’m going to go cry into my rotisserie chicken now.
[quote]bigmac73nh wrote:
Thx, I needed to feel small for a bit.
… I’m going to go cry into my rotisserie chicken now.[/quote]
Lol…enjoy the chicken.
[quote]ebomb5522 wrote:
[quote]bigmac73nh wrote:
Thx, I needed to feel small for a bit.
… I’m going to go cry into my rotisserie chicken now.[/quote]
Lol…enjoy the chicken.
[/quote]
I LOLed.
Great stuff, Evan! You’re definitely looking thick.
[quote]ashylarryku wrote:
[quote]ebomb5522 wrote:
[quote]bigmac73nh wrote:
Thx, I needed to feel small for a bit.
… I’m going to go cry into my rotisserie chicken now.[/quote]
Lol…enjoy the chicken.
[/quote]
I LOLed.
Great stuff, Evan! You’re definitely looking thick.[/quote]
Lol…thanks Ashy…trying man.
2.23.12
Back/Biceps/Traps
Meadows Facing Away Neutral Pulldowns (explanation)
2 warmup sets
‘14’ (top weight is 20) x 10, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2
Barbell Rows
Stretchers
2 warmups
1 top set x 10 (to failure)
Rack Deads + Doubled Mini Bands (video)
top set:
495 x 5
Speed Sets
315 x 6x3
Machine Preachers
90 x 10, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Elbows in hands out
70 x 8, 2, 2, 2, 2
Traps Giant Set
Seated Dumbbell Shrugs w/3 second hold: 100 x 10
Calf Raise Shrug w/ 3 second hold: x 8
Barbell Front Shrug w/hold: x 8
2 times through
Awesome back session.
If you look at Meadows’ most recent back training article, the first exercise I did is in there and they were awesome. The pump was insane and I felt my back working more than any other pulldown variation I do. Definitely a keeper.
I haven’t done relatively heavy/looser form barbell rows in a while and went up to 315 for both overhand and underhand today and it felt awesome. I used to do them all the time (sometimes twice a week!) and attribute a lot of my early back thickness to them, so I’m bringing em’ back.
I haven’t done rack deads with band resistance in a long time, and only did them once, but they felt awesome. Really makes you work a whole lot more and I felt them a ton in my entire back/chain. I threw in the speed sets at the end just because that’s what felt ‘right’ lol. I rested 45-60 seconds between each set and really tried to explode as fast as possible on each rep.
Trap giant set felt great…having pumped traps kinda hurts.
RFL is going very well.
Good stuff. It’s always interesting to see the details of your training.
Did you speed up the video?
I looked like everything was in double time, or maybe the playback was just weird on my internet connection.